Excerpt from Federal Britain: Or Unity and Federation of the Empire

For about a quarter of a century the all-important question, how the British Empire is to stand in the future - for none but degenerate Britons could be content to think of its fall - has been more and more engaging the interest and consideration of our people in all our great countries, both old and new. During this period I have followed the discussion of the subject, with the keen interest of one born and brought, up in the Colonies, but resident for years in England. Thus, having been able to view the situation from both standpoints, I am convinced that the noblest form of patriotism is that which, whilst ever keeping a man"s affections constant to his native land, is wide-minded and large-hearted enough to make him also deeply love all the old and new British lands beyond - it in a word, the Empire.

Such a blending of Provincial and Imperial sympathies is in perfect harmony, both with particular and general interests, which are common in so many great questions; whilst those concerns, of minor importance, which are at all divergent, would be far from improved by a policy of separation.

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